Author/Authors :
Rahmani، Elahe نويسنده MA , Islamic Azad University, Takestan Branch , , Rahmany، Ramin نويسنده Assistant Professor, Takestan Islamic Azad University, Takestan, Iran , , Sadeghi، Bahador نويسنده nglish Department, Islamic Azad University, Takestan Branch, Takestan, Iran ,
Abstract :
This study attempts to investigate politeness strategies and politeness markers in email-request sent by Iranian male and female English as foreign language (EFL) learners to professors. The comparison between strategies used by males and females in email-request were also analyzed. 52 actual emails of M.A students of teaching English as foreign language (TEFL) studying at Takestan Islamic Azad University in Ghazvin province in Iran consisted the data in this research. To analyze the corpus, politeness strategies in each email were examined according to the four strategies adapted by Brown and Levinsonʹs (1978) Politeness Theory. Finally, the frequency of syntactic and lexical politeness modifiers in each email-request of male and female were found and compared. The results showed that negative politeness strategy was the most frequent strategy used by males and females in email-requests. Also, embedding was the most frequent syntactic politeness modifier and subjectivizers were the most frequent lexical politeness modifiers used by both males and females in email-requests.
